The Ministry of National Education informs that, for the inclusion in preschool education of children aged between 3 and 6, the following stages will take place successively at the level of each educational unit:

• re-enrollment of children who are attending kindergarten in this school year and wish to attend also in the school year 2018-2019 - will begin on May 7;
• enrollment of new children will take place starting May 21.

The schedule for re-enrollments and enrollments will be set by the management of the educational unit and will be displayed, in a visible place, in each kindergarten, for the information of parents and interested public, including on its website (if it exists), and possibly on the websites of school inspectorates.

Filling the available spots, after the completion of the re-enrollment process, will generally be done in descending order of age groups, as follows: large group (5-year-old children), middle group (4-year-old children), and small group (3-year-old children). According to Government Decision no. 1.252/2012 and within the limit of available places, children aged between 2 and 3 years can also be enrolled in the small group.

If, in an educational unit, the number of enrollment requests is higher than the number of available spots, general and specific separation criteria will be applied, successively.

The general separation criteria are the following:

• the existence of a document proving that a child is an orphan of both parents (the situation of a child coming from an orphanage/a placement center/family placement is assimilated to the situation of a child orphaned of both parents);
• the existence of a document proving the child is orphaned of one parent;
• the existence of a brother/sister enrolled in the respective educational unit;
• the existence of a medical certificate attesting the child's disability degree.

The specific separation criteria (elaborated by each preschool educational unit, approved by its Board of Administration and endorsed by the County School Inspectorate/of the Municipality of Bucharest by May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-enrollment lists. Also, the specific separation criteria will be applied only after the general criteria are exhausted.

To ensure the transparency of the re-enrollment/enrollment process, the management of preschool educational units will display, in a visible place, for all interested, the following information:

• the institution's capacity (the number of children for which it was designed);
• the number of spots approved through the schooling plan for the school year 2018-2019 (by age groups: small, middle, large);
• the general and specific criteria for admitting children;
• the number of children re-enrolled/enrolled daily (during the set period) out of total available.

We mention that private preschool educational units also have the obligation to display in a visible place the information regarding their status, namely whether they are authorized to operate provisionally or are accredited by the Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-university Education (ARACIP).